Director, Legal

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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solo.io

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

🏢 Enterprise

API • Cloud Computing • Enterprise

Solo. io is a company specializing in cloud-native API management and service connectivity solutions. Their products, such as Gloo Gateway and Gloo Mesh, aim to automate security, observability, resiliency, and traffic control for APIs and workloads in any environment. Built on leading open-source technologies like Envoy, Kubernetes, and Istio, Solo. io provides solutions for zero-trust, federated, and omni-directional cloud connectivity. Their focus includes helping organizations transition to modern cloud infrastructures by offering scalable, operable, and high-performance tools for managing service and API connections.

📋 Description

• Lead Solo.io’s in-house legal work and report to the CFO • Work closely with the CEO and leadership team • Review, draft and negotiate customer, partner, reseller and vendor agreements, NDAs and order forms • Own contract templates and playbooks, including AI, data and security provisions • Use Ironclad, AI tools and value-added processes to streamline legal operations • Advise on data privacy and security commitments, data processing agreements, GDPR and customer security reviews • Advise on open source licensing, contributor agreements and open source foundation participation • Manage outside counsel and the legal budget for specialized matters • Maintain standard document, policy and procedure libraries • Draft and negotiate employment documents • Support People Ops on compensation, benefits, immigration and international employment matters • Support corporate matters including board materials, equity administration, entity management and financing or strategic transactions • Help shape internal AI use and governance policies • Advise on trade compliance and export controls • Review external marketing communications, including press releases, website and social media

🎯 Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school • Active license to practice in at least one US state • Must be able to register as in-house counsel in Massachusetts • 7–10 years of commercial legal experience at a law firm, in-house, or both • Strong commercial contracts background • Deep expertise drafting and negotiating enterprise software agreements, including SaaS, licensing, data processing and partner agreements • In-house experience at a software or SaaS company is strongly preferred • Ability to work as a team of one and own work end to end • Sound judgment on legal, commercial and reputational risk • Strong organization and ability to manage many matters across teams and time zones • Clear, plain-English communication with engineers, sales leaders and executives • Permanent, ongoing authorization to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Occasional travel may be required • Equal Opportunity Employer • Collaborative, fun and fast-paced work culture • Opportunity to work with customers, partners and open source communities • Hands-on education and professional exposure through customer engagements